Sony SLV-575 VCR (mint in the box)

oh oh yeah oh my word this is absolutely immaculate look at this none of this grease is dried up like all of this none of this is is seized or anything i think this thing's been well taken care of i wanted to make sure that these guides aren't stuck uh like all those 12-volt vids so i don't want that gear to break or that gear there uh but it looks good i think i'm gonna put this together and power it on here's a look at the front and uh despite the gobs of light that i throw at this thing it is such a deep rich polished black that is very very hard to film beautiful though and of course the fingerprint magnet if we flip down this front door look at the controls inside power led goes through a little light hole there power and eject headphone line in headphone level line in two there's also one in the back still got a sharpness control your uh line level for record and this also has the multi-command remote that a lot of the high-end sony's used uh here you've got your input select uh tv vcr which is the rf modulator channel tracking this head automatic tracking and okay can't turn it off because there's no tape in there but you can turn it off and manually adjust it which is very nice being able to turn that off especially in the earlier ones certain models just suck for auto tracking high speed rewind which i already showed it unloads the tape in the early days of high speed rewind they would completely unload the tape like that your normal transport controls now you have fast forward and rewind that'll do the scan but you also have over here your shuttle swing shuttle wheel so if you're in play i can show this later you can control forward and reverse speeds it's kind of cool the front view meters counter there's a tiny little dim clock down there your channel indicator so i can adjust the channels adjust the record speed which is nice because that's built onto the front here as well and this big remote this direction uh controls the shuttle wheel so you can actually move through the shuttle commands and it has two sets of uh visual search i believe this one is momentary and this one latches on which is kind of cool double record button i can slow mode slow motion adjust the speed it doesn't really have like a single frame advance uh times two then all your normal controls audio monitor for turning hi-fi on and off or look connected to just one audio channel this is all used for your menu uh yeah pretty straightforward and of course the corresponding uh command mode switch so the idea is that if you have multiple sony vcrs that you're using for dubbing copying whatever you may be what really sucks is having um you know one remote accidentally control them all and having to block them so you can set one to vtr one two three hitachi made rca's did something similar they had vcr1 vcr2 but that was accomplished through the menu so in order to set it to vcr2 you'd go into the menu and say okay set to vcr2 and then it would say okay hit a button on vcr2 to prove that you have the remote so i'm not going to lock you out and the universal remotes would have you know tv bcr1 vcr2 here's some examples here's a hitachi remote for a vcr and you have vcr1 vcr2 as possible devices to control here's a early rca remote probably for like a large screen rca tv same idea vcr1 vcr2 so that was kind of a neat neat feature that a lot of these brands did knowing that you could have two vcrs and you know if one remote only controlled all the vcrs you're probably going to buy a different brand for your second vcr so why not buy the same brand taking a look at this remote you can see this actually wasn't me prying it open it's been opened in the past and i will show you the issue was i'll take out these leaky cells a little plastic that sits in here behind that little piece of wire broke very common on these remotes and what someone had did or done whatever is they glued a little piece of plastic there to prop it up and they coiled up a little piece of wire and stuck it on there in behind and it was all super janky of course it was broken when i got it this was also all leaky there's still crud in there but i thought i cleaned it all out whatever anyway i glued a little chunk of i don't know whatever miscellaneous scrap piece of rubber i had in there just to push against this fit perfectly just some hot glue and this works great i don't have to worry about the battery pushing on it and breaking it any further [Music] maybe i'll need to check the bottom again to make sure everything is is uh actually greased properly remember before flipping it over unplug this little cable going to the loading motor you'll see why all right this is really similar to i think it was a triple five that uh 12 volt vids worked on so same idea there's a flip over board on the bottom here so i think five screws come out i think five yeah five in this case they all have arrows on them which is nice so then before you want to flip it over there's a two little plastic clips one here one there and there's a connector here for the video head drum right up here that you want to disconnect that's just off camera get that out now it's sort of a lift directly up because there's a connector here and a connector here that you want to disconnect so kind of give it a little lift there lift there now it's floating and lift directly up until you can kind of pull it over and you want to lift directly up because let me move this up here you can see it's got the sensors there's three of these sensors get the third one in there sort of see it so and this uh cable here is the loading motor it's very difficult to disconnect from the board when you're trying to remove the board it's much easier to disconnect on the other side so you can just sort of let that sit there uh 12 volt bits did oh one other connector there's also this one when you're pulling up i always forget that too so that one has to seat properly uh but i pulled this cam gear off uh lubricated the back side lubricated the front side there's three pins that go into it when you're putting it back one here one here and one that's kind of hidden underneath this bracket and what i did is i just used a little spring hook to sort of locate them as i'm placing it down and timing this hole on the cam gear lines up with a hole on this long piece here uh you kind of want the this weird shape uh there's like this uh concave shape on this white gear to line up with here so you kind of push the two guides down to pre-load them and going along yeah to get this out you just have to remove this toothed belt so you can loosen this and then push it forward and that'll allow you to take the belt off this cam gear i also removed and lubricated everything below it and similar timing this hole lines up with a hole on this piece and if you look real close i don't know how easily i'll be able to show it you can see there's an arrow that lines up with a tiny little notch or a little hole there so yeah thankfully this machine is real easy to get the timing right on but all the either stuff is really only accessible from the top and of course when you're putting it back it's just the reverse so you lift it high enough where the three sensors can just drop directly down into those holes lightly sit this here before you put it in obviously this connector in the corner i always forget remember to kind of pull it up above that copper plate so that you can plug it in that's plugged in just sort of set this you can pop these two connectors in place there and there they should go in nice and easy shouldn't put up any difficulty then put it underneath these two white clips like so and the last connector is right here and now that it's sitting well screw it back in i've had the bottom of this off so many times from trying to figure out what's causing that stupid rewind problem the plus side is it's a lot quieter in operation now that everything's lubricated the motor is still really loud this little motor here i don't know if it's just as they age they get noisy or if these sonys were just always really noisy but it just it's loud all the operations this man right right yeah oops last one here and then to put the bottom back on just sort of sit it like that screw it back in done and just as a reminder when putting the bottom panel in these two screws look different they're less of a brass color and they have a different threading in a different head and those go here and here all the other sort of brass colored screws go everywhere else this is for those of you who enjoy watching the loading cycle [Applause] [Music] and of course i have it plugged into monitor out so it's going to show the info screen the monitor out also allows you get into things like the menu and whatnot just listen to how loud that is though let's do a fast forward do a rewind then we'll do a high speed rewind all right i've decided to go in for it i was groaning and not looking forward to taking this front off holy crap did sony ever make it easy look at this connector where's that connector that's it like it just slides out there's a those two screws i talked about that are different one there one there those come out on the bottom then the whole front just pops right off so just got these two connectors there and there and everything else is already attached ooh that's shiny oh look at that it's like mirror cool i'm starting to like this machine more and more from a service standpoint uh taking the loading mechanism out there's two black screws that you can't really see there and there that just go into the chassis here there's a screw here a screw there and then there's also a plate that runs from over here onto the loading mechanism so six screws total a little plate there and the front plate and it comes out damn all right so first off this top cover needs to be removed there's a little clip on this side and a clip on this side it should just lift right up there that just removes uh it's got a spring that pushes down on this gear here so the way this works is this gear will drop down here if i lift this up there's a little mechanism there that pushes this gear up and down now this is the direct gear for like high speed rewind that that skips i think regular might just be high speed i don't know um but it skips the idler all together and then this black gear drives it and then it directly couples to this gear which drives that real table when this gear is pushed up it'll spin freely and this this and this will mesh now of course when this gear is is lowered this is idler is pushed so it's sitting away so you don't drive it with two different gears and mash them together what i have done is i've put some grease on here some grease on there as you can see i've greased the top of this where that spring sits i also took that little spacer that washer out and grease the back side of it i cleaned out the inside of this piece here and i greased this post now to remove this as you can see i've been in here twice i lost the footage of the first one so we're doing this twice you just pop this little clip off and you can just pull it with a screwdriver and pop it off with your finger so i've just removed it and then this whole idler assembly comes out and what i'm doing is i'm greasing this piece here and inside there and that post and what you want to do is you want to remember where it sits in relation to this plastic piece here if i can get some light there so it sits on the rounded side right there it doesn't sit outside it sits here this could have been slid over and then you'll see the post that's actually under here and it's rounded it goes it's rounded there it goes rounded up again so you want to be on that side this side not this side of it while i'm at it too it's easy to remove these and put a little bit of grease on there i got way more than needed right now you can just sort of grease this up as well lube there we go once that's all done it's just a matter of putting oops i got that backwards it's a matter of putting this back now this side has a bit of a slot whereas this is just a hole so this side needs to go in first and this is going to be damn near impossible to do one-handed but just trust me when i say that you want to put this post in first and then that post because that's slightly slotted in second now put everything back together and see how it goes all right i have it back together let me just hit play so now if i go to rewind nice and clean very smooth transition so taking a quick look at it i haven't set the clock yet the clock is the dimmest part of the vfd i guess because it's just sat off like this for so long flip this down power on nice green light shines through the little light tube dampened door on the front here then you get the rest of your display and all the controls here they already sort of showed off and by default when you turn it on you get all this wonderful on-screen display which i appreciate that they gave you two outputs to be able to avoid that but it would be nice to either have it default off or have a button here to turn it off because if you don't have the remote you're kind of stuck switching between the outputs luckily i do and data screen will turn it off now there's no tape in there so it's not going to give me the remaining but let's pop a tape in pop just this junker tape it's funny the loading sounds very similar to an rca eight millimeter camcorder we had in the early 90s and i believe the mechanism was made by sony so that's a pretty typical sony sound remember whenever we'd use it it'd be going right right making all those buzzing sounds anyway if i were to hit play now so we just got some stuff recorded off tv auto tracking do its thing this is me hitting the this fast forward button here it's momentary or if i hit the far fast forward button it sticks on full and when i hit data screen here it will eventually figure out the tape remaining until it does it won't show up there but it uh see if i fast forward a bit yep there we go so there's my start end that was very very popular on these uh sony models very common screen let's uh let's try the jog i keep calling it that it's a shuttle wheel doesn't do jog so if i twist it slightly to the right slow motion keep twisting to the right now it's playing at 1x with no sound 2x and then the rest is just scan and if i let go and let it go back to this middle position you'll see the pause icon there and it just pauses and then i can go backwards same thing a little further minus 1x minus 2x and rewind scan now go hit play what i can do is hit these direction buttons same thing 1x hit it again minus 1x oh i see this only controls the direction of playback this doesn't actually mimic the uh swing shuttle which i thought it did interesting so this just goes back and forward cool what other functions do i have here slow motion speed so i can slow it down or i can speed it up i can go 2x pause yeah so all the controls can either be done on the front with the swing shuttle or on the remote do let's go into the menu see what the menu can do so it's got a nice arrow keypad what's auto menu auto menu play rewind power off go to zero stop go to zero play what okay let's pick this rewind play oh so i can just tell it to do things from the menu that's really cool so this is i just set this to rewind and play so i could go into the menu and tell it to like yeah it's now it's playing there's nothing on the tape yet but there will be very cool let me fast forward a little there we go [Music] so if this were in like a classroom environment i could say okay um play rewind power off then i could go over to the teacher's lounge and just chill not saying they did that but i could that's why i'm not a teacher auto repeat wow this has a lot of capability in there timer set check it's probably just for the timer recordings can't get in there because the clock's not set mode set auto antenna select auto stereo clock display on so i can shut the clock display off okay so i just shut it off now what happens if i turn this off did nothing what was that about then oh it remembers where i was off is that like an on-screen display thing oh it's an on-screen display so i can disable the clock along the top that's nice i i like it like that that's that's how i remember these machines when i was in school it's just having that and and the worst part is you'd watch a movie in class and the way they had it hooked up throughout the entire movie you'd have this in the corner because again teachers don't have the remote and it's hooked up through the monitor out or the rfo which i believe does this between that and those cheap tvs that always showed channel 3 in the corner when we were watching movies it was just uh frustrating tuner preset pretty standard stuff you can actually find two oh wow that is neat and of course it's going nuts right now because there's no channel function memory oh okay i don't know what that's about clock set what's demonstration demo oh okay so in the store they would just show off all these menu features oh here i'm demonstrating for you all the things that it has you can change the background color to green and pink i didn't even show that it's showing me up okay let's get out of here is there any more pages nope just that well it's still very cool i still think it's cool what's on the next page timer title timer record rewind audio mix again okay so i was playing with this um when i did that zenith and uh i was talking about how when you mix high fine linear audio they kind of garble like they're out of phase i have a theory i have nothing to base this theory off of but if you look at four head vcrs like a standard four head vhs vcr the original the heads were 90 degrees out from each other so you had your el um say your ep or slp heads and your sp heads now if you had hifi hifi would be tucked in between there right but then depending on if it's slp or sp your hi-fi is going to be slightly phased out of there now your your tracking control will of course make up for it to match your tracking control pulse with where the heads swipe right so you can compensate for it but with a dual azimuth head the heads are now at a different angle to the hi-fi right maybe i i just i don't understand how it can be phased out like that anyway please someone in the comments tell me there's got to be someone who knows what they're doing here with the homeless in her hometown of atlanta georgia there we go she's an ex raider at cheerleader and [Music] and it will do its thing and uh if i turn it off and i adjust there it flashes while it's doing the auto tracking chance to turn profound experience into meaningful words pretty neat this machine's not blowing me away but i mean it's it's it sony back and when this was made had that presence about them right i don't know if it's hubris or what but these were considered top-end machines and having gone in here and serviced it yeah i gotta say like at least service is easy taking the power supply outs two screws and two connectors the whole thing comes out it's got you can pop the back off pop the front off remove any component without doing anything like this compared to the betamax machines i've worked on say five years previous to this what a difference this thing is very nice very nice to to do things on so i think it's kind of unfair to just do a comparison um using a crappy recorded off tv ep tape so here's sp pause frame advance or slow motion 1x 2x fast forward much cleaner the hi-fi in this is awesome i only had to tweak one of the tape guides a little bit for the tape path alignment but of course showing the back this is when vcrs were getting pretty bog standard you have your control s which is common on a lot of sony machines so that you could i guess link them together for editing or if some master controller was literally in that brochure and i already forgot uh your rf modulator in and out your first line in and here's your line out this has no on-screen display or menu and then this has the on-screen display in menu power supply juts out the back here runs nice and cool compared to some of the earlier ones that i've looked at there's a model number and yeah power supply the power cord is attached to it so you can just pop the whole thing right out and you just have this hole sticking out the back very nice and this came with everything including the original invoice bought in march of 91 at the sony store i actually remember that sony store i remember begging my dad to go there to look at stuff and the slv 575 and with bonus two tapes okay so we got a total of four tapes and the machine was 6.49 by the 90s i mean vcrs were getting cheaper 649 was a lot for a vcr in 1991 but if you compare to the 80s was actually a steal and check this out the bag that the tapes came in that is really cool with a 90s early 90s sony handycam on the bag as i said this came with all the service history all the times it was brought in for maintenance repair power supply let's see here shuts off clock doesn't work repair something about broken solder joints it's hard to read the capstan motor was replaced back in 95 and of course the user manual i'll probably never look in this but i'm very happy that it came with it and uh what's kind of funny is whenever you see pictures of these they'll always be a sticker right back here and this is the sticker just got stuck onto the manual so this is regarding monitor out these models had a monitor out and a line out the monitor out showed all your on-screen display your line out was useful if you're dubbing or if you don't care about on-screen display it would never show any menu or whatever so this is basically saying hey when you use a color monitor or a tv equipped with audio video input be sure to connect them to monitor out for on-screen display if you connect to line out certain operations using the menu display such as tuner presetting cannot be performed i remember this exact sticker on my seven what did i say it was on that fancier one that i owned a while ago that never worked same idea i think all the high-end sony's did this at the time and of course um when i take a look at this wonderful brochure that it came with the sony total home video this is the 1990 brochure and of course they start out with their top of the line super vhs slv r5 and these little icons showing all the different features svhs edit monitor it'll actually show you yeah the input and what you're recording and all sorts of stuff pretty neat describes a flying erase head and the svhs videotape here's sony's offering of vcrs consumer vcrs from 1990. so besides the svhs i guess their top one of their top end was the slv 757 i actually had this for a brief period about 10 years ago i bought it at thrift store because it looked super awesome the whole front is a door that flips down so the door actually goes up and around here and flips down to to show everything uh mine didn't work i didn't have interest in fixing it so i gave it away but i wish i would have kept it it was super cool here it's showing the automatic head cleaner which luckily was removed from this machine in one of its past servicings and going down you have the slv 676 and this one has the jog dial or sorry the shuttle control on the remote and the vcr i can't remember if this had a shuttle control on the inside yes it says swing shuttle so it had a shuttle control on the inside there this one still has the flying erase head which both of these ones have then we go down this slv set slv 575 which is the one that i have here this one has all the same features but does not have a flying erase head and doesn't have the audio and video editing features then you go down to the slv 373 weirdly enough no swing shuttle control on the remote swing shuttle control on the remote but this is a non-hi-fi model so this is just forehead mono i remember seeing some of these in my school uh when i was a kid the schools all had sony products sony betamax machines sony vhs machines so i remember seeing not this one but i think this one and maybe some of the stereo versions and then we get into the budget model the slv m77 two head mono not made by sony this looks very similar if you look at these channel buttons to that samuel made um two head mono so two head mono sony that i have from i think 91 so this would have been the predecessor to it and um so i've been trying to understand sony model numbers sl dash whatever is for beta sl 5200 for example is a beta slv is for vhs so all their vhs models were slv then afterwards you can have just a number you can have a number with hf if it's hi-fi sometimes they did that sometimes they didn't i don't know and then you had m in the early 90s there was m and i believe that was non-sony made so they're budget models they all seem to be sanyo going a little further into the modern vcrs in the late 90s early 2000s you have slv n and i know um you know 12 volt vids video he mentioned they were non-serviceable non-repairable i can't remember what he said but the end stood for basically it breaks you don't have service manual service data and i believe that's because they were all made not by sony they were samsung machines so i haven't been able to find anything online to sort of clarify the difference in the modeling model numbers but i believe that's what these mean and of course slv-r that is all the svhs models that they made anyway carrying on more information here's a vhs comparison chart between the models and they were still pushing their betamax the slhf860d which is weird because this is a 1988 model like there were newer models after this from my understanding i don't know why they were still pushing this one this is an old this is an old one i know because i have this one a recent acquisition this had that uh those digital special effects that i showed on that rca vmt 400 that were very popular in the late 80s you know a picture-in-picture freeze do special effects mosaic pixelization uh yeah here it shows some of the uh descriptions for it so you can do multi-strobe where it shows frame after frame and different grid arrangements picture art mosaic art picture in picture you can digital zoom which was kind of a novelty back in the 80s flash motion so it'll pick every x number of frames stop motion digital recall is kind of neat uh what this does is this will show you the last image that was available to the digital frame buffer digital scan scan for a desired scene at up to 60 times normal speed in beta 3. ah i haven't actually tried that neat and then there's the uh lower end betamax model they were showing off the slhf 360. super beta also hi-fi no digital effects but still seems fairly capable more stuff about beta an improved video head fifty percent more durability super beta hi-fi higher writing speed that's see now this is just getting into comparisons between beta and vhs i think beta scan remote commander i mean i think you're stretching with a lot of these super mechanism here's the comparison of the models for those who want to pause and see and we get into laserdisc av laser sony has launched home video entertainment into the 21st century with av laser i think i've actually seen some of their laserdisc players called max which which i thought was just delightful it's not betamax it's laser max i'm not super knowledgeable on laserdiscs so i'm just gonna pan over this if anyone's interested and then a final comparison chart for their vhs vcrs neat now i believe this means that it's a brochure from the 90s vcr br brochure english 1990. if anyone is familiar with my old test tape uh yeah i needed a test cassette i didn't have one and it turns out these modern store-bought movies are made of such brittle plastic that i did this with my hands and it actually works quite well they even put that little tri-wing screw back in just to piss people off so yeah this is how i was able to check the idler with the tape inside for those who enjoy watching the loading cycle oh and always remember plug

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Length: 44min 26sec (2666 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 13 2021